The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-04
Farm Notes.

| Market men say UllaD une demand IOr CUT
rants is increasing yearly. The old way Of
crates and baskets,
The warm days will cause the corn tc
grow very rapidly, while tomatoes, Lima
| BEANS squashes and melons delight in the
warmest weather in order TO yield well.
| The net profits from the sale of small fruit
| by two young ladies in California last year
| one of whom was Consunptive when she
| began, amounted to the handsome sum OF
| $4,000.
Wells on the farm should be thoroughly
| cleaned out in the spring and fall. At this
| season there will be few wells that will not
contain toads, both alive and in a state OF
decomposition.
A great many weeds can be used, when
| just coming up, as greens, such as poke
| lambs quarter and dandelion; but it is bet
| ter to grow mustard and kale instead, and
pillow under all weeds
Work the strawberry plants well now and
remove all the grass and weeds between
| them. II plentiful supply of manure be
used the plants may be allowed to throw out
a large number of runners, but between the
rows should be kept clean.
| In twenty days the eggs of one hen would
exceed the weight of her body. So of any
bird. Yet the whole of that mass of albu.
men is drawn directly from her blood II
stinted in food, of course, it would limit the
number as well as the size of the eggs
Pick out your breeders, says the Farm,
Journal, the pigs with long bodies, broad
backs and deep, round hams Select breed
| which has hair on it. A good coat of hair
| counts on hog as well as any animal. II
is a protection i'll summer and in winter.
In pruning trees of any kind it is better
to have one strong branch or limb than two
| or three weak ones, says Popular Garden
| ing 1t is better TO keep limbs thinned out
| than to cut back and make too close heads
Let the suns rays in all through the tree.
A heavy mulch between the rows of rasp.
| berries and blackberries will double the cror
of fruit and save time in cultivating; but
just before applying it go through them
with a cultivator and hoe, treating the
| suckers that have sprung up as noxious
weeds.
The ounce is great feeder and needs
good cultivation. No other fruit requires
so much manure and such thorough cultiva-
tion. If the trees be neglected it is likely
that there will be no fruit, but If there shall
it will be Of small growth and unsightly APP
pearance.
The spring litter of pigs should be re-
moved from the sow and turned on the
clover. A warm mess in the morning and
at night of scalded ground oats and mid
dlings will cause them to grow very rapidly,
as they viii also secure large share Of their
food in the field.
Good butter cows will make pound of
butter to every IA to pounds Of milk
General purpose cows" want from % to 81
pounds, and some cows would require 80
pounds of milk to make pound of butter.
Average diaries require somewhere about
Is pounds of milk TO make pound Of but
ter.
If the field be heavily covered with tall
weeds, and there be no other crop growing
thereon, broadcast ten bushels Of lime over
the weeds and plow them under, before they
seed as green manurial crop Allow them
TO remain a month, then harrow in two
bushels of rye per acre, and plow the rye
under when it is three feet high turning it
down with a chain and next spring the land
will be excellent for corn.
Lice is the summer drawback to poultry.
Old nests, filthy floors and fowls crowded on
the roosts cause lice to breed very rapidly,
and as the vermin begin to attack the hens
the production of eggs diminishes until very
few eggs are obtained The final result Is
that the fowls are debilitated from the at
tacl1s Of the pests, and quickly succumb TO
roup and cholera. The poultry house must
be kept clean and well whitewashed, while
kerosene and carbolic acid may be used
freely on every part.
A writer in the American Rural Home
thus describes how be avoided potato bugs:
SIN planting potatoes | dropped a handful
of unleached ashes upon each hill after
spatting the ground with the hoe, believing
it would be dsagreeable to the bugs when
they made their first appearance, which Is
the best time to fight them, as the first ones
that come do not feed upon the vines, the
slugs from the eggs being the real depre-
dators As a result have found and killed
five beetles, when before | numbered thou
sands upon the same ground"